Teenage Kicks

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C71FF14D9198064C

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A sound of summer

  
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You may need to see it twice in order to see it once.

Having watched this once, I'm in agreement with David Denby's review in the New Yorker that I've Loved You So Long needs a second viewing. A double rent from iTunes; I may as well have bought it.

 

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Recommended listening - here's my current list. What else do you suggest?

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Friday night frogs

http://audioboo.fm/boos/29841-friday-night-frogs

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Wake up.

This goes down as the first boo, a partner to my first tweet.

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Have a cup of tea

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Not only is McGill 50, but Morrissey is too.

So we'll celebrate with a few previously unpublished photos.

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McGill is 50, so is Morrisey..

http://www.google.com/reader/i/?hl=en&gl=jp#stream/user%2F11755998367948712681%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list

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Bento, beer, book...I love starting train journeys in Japan.

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Delete me three post@runeur

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Delete me 2

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Delete me

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@jabberings animation posting prompts me to share "la maison en petits cubes", which probably fell off most radars pretty quickly after the oscars, but is worth some of your time.

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The British tried really hard and were better tyrants than Democrats.

Heimer gets the credit for bringing our attention to this clip from the Daily Show. The British really were bettter tyrants than the democrats.

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God Mountain never really quite got; it doesn't have to be Starbucks.

Just by Hankyu Mino station. Good coffee, small eats and glasses of cold beer.

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Taken, edited, posted

There's a lot wrong with this image, but within it lies some remarkable potential...

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@marypfeiffer good, good. Your words create the image. Wonderful spring morning here up in the trees.

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McGill at 50

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Back home. Sumptuously exhausted, the bath is ready...

Usually, when I have company on this run, we finish off in an onsen a short taxi ride from one of the stations on the way back. Today though, I'll have to make do with the home bath.

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Beach running

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Jim James Live

All Songs Considered, the smart and eclectic but otherwise uneven NPR music show, offers a live concert series with an impressive line-up of acts. The sound quality is not always great, but this solo acoustic show from Jim James of My Morning Jacket is a straight-up winner.

At least one other impressive live set of James' (from the Newport Folk Festival) is available via the ASC concerts podcast.

Bob Edwards Weekend

This post is really for the non-American (not to say un-American) listener, as American radio fans already know Bob Edwards like family. Bob hosted the NPR program Morning Edition for about 25 years; when he was displaced a few years back by bosses looking for something newer and fresher, there was a hue and cry. Over 50,000 fans wrote NPR criticizing the move, and at least one "Save Bob Edwards" website took root. All the NPR listeners I knew were upset; after all, many of us had woken up to Bob's honeyed voice and incisive interviews for most of our adult lives. After Bob switched to satellite radio, his programs became available for a fee through Audible, and a year or so ago a free podcast edition of Bob Edwards Weekend was made available. The latter is a distillation of the M-F daily program, and requires the reasonable commitment of 51 minutes per week. Great guests, always intelligent conversation, and Bob's everything's-going-to-be-all-right voice to top it off.

To give you an idea of content, here's a description of the episode I listened to this morning:

Eighteenth-century scientist and philosopher Joseph Priestley was one of the world's most prominent religious thinkers as well as one of The Enlightenment’s most gifted amateur scientists. Writer STEVEN JOHNSON's book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America uses Priestley's life to look at how revolutionary ideas emerge and spread.

Bob talks with writer MARK HARRIS about his book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, which compares and contrasts the five Oscar nominees for best picture of 1967. In the Heat of the Night beat out fellow nominees Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Doctor Dolittle.

Stephen Fry on Language

Stephen Fry's appearances are everywhere you look in the British media; be it tv, print, radio or online (blog, twitter,...) it can be almost overwhelming. Maybe it is through all this that his status as British institution is pretty much unassailable. I can take or leave much of the content that he finds himself drawn to (his America series was too fleeting to be meaningful; is QI getting tired?), but there are undoubted gems in amongst it all. His meanderings on language are worth thirty minutes investment.

Rokia Traore does Gershwin

I first saw this video of Rokia Traore performing a while ago courtesy of TED and was drawn in by the combination of instrument and vocals in a way that only rarely happens with me. A friend, mentioning that I'd recently mentioned her, pointed me to NPR's Song of the Day for January 27th, 2009. Something of a wow factor here, shooting off in a surprising but stunning direction.

(cautionary note: once you start on TED, it's pretty difficult to stop)

In conversation with the American Dream.

There's a sense of satisfaction in discovering a book that you feel is good enough to recommend to good friends. Somehow though, there is more pleasure in being on the receiving end of a good suggestion from a good friend. This was the case recently spending some time in the company of Joseph O'Neill's writing and his first novel Netherland. Just reading it would have been enough, but since plenty of others seemed to enjoy this, there was plenty with which to follow-up once the covers of the book had been closed. Normal searches in the normal places bring up interviews with the author, which in turn shed light on some interesting detail about the book and the author. Among these, discovering that it had been seven years in the writing made me want to go back and read it a bit more slowly; it seems rather insulting to that effort to have read it in just two sittings.

Although a bit late in coming to it, among my regular listening subscriptions I found a look at the book in Slate magazine's Audio Book Club. I enjoy this show's format, with three people in informal discussion. I know that somewhere in there will be comments that fit with mine and others that won't; either way it forces me to consider my own thoughts and opinions. With the book drawing comment that it was "in conversation with" Gatsby--from its author and others--I'd decided to go back and re-read the high school standard. Happy, then, to find that the good people at Slate had had exactly the same idea and had that up for discussion as well short while after.

Darwin

With 2009 being the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of Origin of the Species, there are bound to be events all over the web. I proffer as good a start as any is to spend a bit of time with Melvin Bragg. The In Our Time programme has put together a series as part of the larger project between the BBC and the Open University (in itself a world to get lost in--a mature online learning resource).

Alan Johnston

It is a shame that the BBC doesn't give us a complete audio archive of its flagship From Our Own Correspondent programme, it being the essential listening that it is.

Presented by Alan Johnston, the 3rd of January edition included dispatches from Hugh Sykes on corruption and fear in Afghanistan; Paul Martin in Gaza meeting men from Hamas; Sue Lloyd Roberts on how oil brought greed to Nigeria; Emilio San Pedro on being a Cuban exile on the US mainland; and Nick Rankin in remote Britain. All this in under half an hour.

Alan Johnston presents the World Service broadcast version of this programme, with the domestic UK Radio 4 one being fronted by Kate Adie (why the difference?). I recently saw him interviewing Ingrid Betancourt on tv (seems the BBC have left this for us to revisit) and found it quite affecting. His own personal reflections on this interview from an earlier FOOC were equally so, if not more.

Talking to the Professionals

Tales of professional poker (and if anyone can do it), a kind of basketball and crafts (of the handy kind).

Much of my listening is done on the run. That is, literally, while running. One of the challenges of this approach, is to do a good job of keeping mental notes of things I need to look up when I get back home. Today though was easy. An episode of This American Life called "Meet the Pros" had me with just one note: Look up Luis Da Silva. Still sweaty, appropriately so I suppose, I went straight for the computer. Despite being undeniably impressive, I'm not sure if it quite lives up to the hype journalist Joel Lovell gave it. Maybe it's just the wrong kind of ball for me?

Two Short Stories

I listened to both of these stories at some point last year, but had a feeling that I hadn't concentrated on them as much as I might. E L Doctorow read the O'Hara story and Mary Gaitskill the Nabokov. The first came back to me as I listened, but Symbols required a third listening to feel what gave it resonance.

New Yorker Fiction - John O'Hara's Graven Image and Nabokov's Symbols and Signs